City under City Museum / ARTS Group

Xuzhou, formerly known as Pengcheng, was selected as the second batch of Chinese National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities in 1986. According to local chronicles, due to its unique geographical location, the Xuzhou city site has not been relocated and presents a superimposed state of the original site. In the overall planning for the protection of the historical context of Xuzhou City, the City under the City Museum is a special urban node after the City Wall Museum project. At the beginning of 2020, the design of the museum began before the excavation work of the site with the starting point of how to deal with the relationship between architecture, ruins, and the city, in order to represent the superimposed urban history.